Kitchener · Ontario

Kitchener diesel prices

253.7¢/L-10.6 vs national

NRCan survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026Ontario average 257.8¢/L

Across the line

Diesel crosses the border, but the number does not. The Canadian side is published per litre and the American side per gallon.

Kitchener · Canadian side253.7¢/L

Central Atlantic · the US district next door$6.508/gal

The American figure is the EIA weekly retail survey — published as $6.508/gal this week — shown the way an American carrier reads it, with the Canadian-dollar equivalent beside it once the page loads. A gallon is not a litre, so these two lines measure the same fuel in different units and the cents will never match. What does compare is the market: a load crossing into Central Atlantic buys its fuel on the other side of a border.

Kitchener runs 10.6¢ below the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip

Citing this figure

Kitchener diesel: 253.7¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/ontario/kitchener/

How it is calculated

What drives Kitchener prices

Kitchener sits in Waterloo Region on the Highway 401 and Highway 8 corridors, and its economy runs on technology and advanced manufacturing. Tech firms and advanced plants both ship freight, keeping trucks on the move through the region. That blend of high-skill industry is what drives the local fuel market. Kitchener's position on the 401 ties it into the main southern Ontario freight spine, while the Highway 8 connection links it deeper into the region's own network. That reach across both corridors is what keeps the city connected.

Ontario survey cities

¢/L · distance from the provincial mean

Sarnia252.9 -4.9 Windsor253.6 -4.2 Kitchener253.7 -4.1 Barrie255.9 -1.9 Kingston256.4 -1.4 Guelph256.6 -1.2 Hamilton256.7 -1.1 Sudbury256.9 -0.9 London257.0 -0.8 Brantford257.4 -0.4 Oshawa257.5 -0.3 Peterborough257.5 -0.3 North Bay257.9 +0.1 Toronto258.4 +0.6 St. Catharines258.6 +0.8 Timmins260.2 +2.4 Thunder Bay262.6 +4.8 Ottawa262.9 +5.1 Sault Ste Marie265.1 +7.3

Every price is an NRCan survey observation from the print dated Tue, 27 Oct 2026. The provincial figure is the unweighted mean of its survey cities, the same figure that enters the Northern Mile Diesel Index.

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